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Eustress and Distress

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Eustress is stress appraised as challenging and manageable; distress is stress appraised as threatening and beyond one's resources.

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The same competition produces eustress in a prepared athlete and distress in an unprepared one.

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The physiological response is largely shared. Appraisal is what separates the two.